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Overthrowing a government doesn't sound like an easy option to me.

• stcredzero 6y ago
  In 2021, you don't overthrow an organization. You crawl up inside it, and offer to do its bureaucratic skut-work. Make yourself useful and indispensable. Then you bring in more and more of your friends and start putting in rules and strictures as a trap. You get key, powerful people out of the way by springing those traps. Eventually, it's an entirely different set of people who are just wearing the branding and regalia of the old organization like a skin suit. Another alternative: You come up with a new way to do X which is 10X better. Then, you get the classic S-shaped adoption curve. Another alternative: You expand the context of your operations, so that those governments just become little annoyances and quaint dusty backwaters inside a larger world.
• runarberg 6y ago
  Whoa! You must have misunderstood me dramatically. One does not need to overthrow a government to issue international standards. That certainly wasn’t the case October 1874 when they standardized international mail, nor was it needed in April 1951 when they standardized shipping containers for the global trade network. My question was simply: What is keeping banks and governments around the world from standardizing money transfer between nations, like they did so well 150 years ago with mail? And my statement: Perhaps it is easier to settle on a standard way of transferring money between nation states then to rely on bitcoin to save some people from hyperinflation + predatory money transfer solutions.
  • mannerheim 6y ago
    Isn't SWIFT such a standard? It's quite common to use it for bank transfers in Europe.